The destruction of auspicious pursuits in America, the weaponization of fear, markets and culture

when over marketing effects the heavily invested and their ability for success and floods the market with posers, people that don't really care about the field but are just there for the monetary opportunity, creating a sinking effect for everyone capitalism kills itself. Kills innovation.

 When society forces too much transparency it forces the vulnerability of those with hopes and dreams, vulnerability of those people to the hawks and the hoards of zombies looking for monetary gain.

 It forces the destruction of the intelligent that don't have the luxury of wealth. Forces them into collectivism. Destroying the potential for originality. Destroying the potential for the original to survive. Destroying the ability for a constant of creativity by those with real ideas that can help push society forward. That is the evil of an over suspicious society, a paranoid society. It is a society that destroys itself.

The drug war hurts people

Should everyone in a group be treated equally across the board? Why are policy's allowed that do such a thing and allow for mass injustice and the abdication of truth? The drug war is a prime example. You have people that abuse some drugs. But you also have those that seek them out for legitimate reason, people suffering from certain conditions that have been let down by the establishment and cannot get the medication that works for them. You have people of various faiths that are effected by drug laws because their beliefs entail the use of certain plants yet are denied exemptions for their beliefs under the 1st amendment. You have the people that want to preserve different species nomenclature that cannot do so because of current laws, leading to the extinction of different species. You have those that want to grow plants like hemp that cannot do so. You have people in a plethora of different fields that are attacked and made to feel uncomfortable doing what they love because of the drug war, not even allowed to speak out against it for fear of attacks by predators, when they've done nothing but speak their mind in a free country, done nothing wrong. You have a system that puts all people in one basket and paints them one way in the name of justice yet creates more often than not injustice. You have a system that makes those that follow the law yet surf the waves close to it in life made to look like criminals, their right to probable cause non existent. You have the people that are not a danger to society, those aforementioned targeted by manufacturers and traffickers laws as well as the truly innocent targeted with warrant less suspicion. Which is injustice. You have those that use abuse as a reason to take everyone elses rights away, so goes with law these days, like a type of parasite or parasitism the lazy and stupid suck away everyone elses rights. In an uneducated democracy freedom becomes slavery.

eBay targets sellers of plant in the coffee family.

Ebay has decided to target sellers of the plant Mitragyna Speciosa on their website. It is a tree from Indonesia more commonly known by the name kratom. They have done so under the pretext of their drugs and paraphernalia policy. Their policy specifically states that it bans the sale of narcotics and scheduled substances. The thing though is that if you call eBay and try to dispute this policy you are not allowed to and are given the runaround by phone operators.

Here is the thing. Kratom is not a scheduled substance. It is a mild narcotic though. Just as the plants: Ashwaganda, Belladonna, Betony, Black Coshosh, Bugleweed, Butter Tree, California Poppy, Camphor Tree, Catnip, Celastrus, Chamomile, Chir Pine, Coffee Senna, Country Mallow, Guarana, Hops, and horse chestnut are. Many of which are commonly used herbs in todays society. Hops are used in beer, California Wild Poppy is the California state wildflower, Chamomile is commonly used in tea, specifically sleepytime tea which can be found at most big name department stores, and there is Guarana, which is used in almost every energy drink out there today.

In my opinion if the big name sellers want to ban people on their sites from providing the leaves of the Mitragyna Speciosa tree then they will have to either specifically list the plant on their sales policy or crack down on every single other narcotic plant out there.

If a company like eBay wants to use the paraphernalia portion of their policy to go after Mitragyna Speciosa there is a lot of hypocrisy as well. Being that it is not scheduled, as I stated earlier. Being that they allow glass pipes that could be misused to consume a scheduled substance, but are marketed for tobacco use only on their website.

I also find it troubling that they are allowed to do this to the community of people selling the Mitragyna Speciosa plant because there are other plants out there that show how much of a double standard they have, like the morning glory plant. It has seeds that contain a schedule 3 substance within them, yet they somehow magically do not decide to go after morning glory seed sellers. Even though there are a lot of people who abuse the seeds of the plant for a psychedelic high.

I think that companies like eBay will someday be replaced by alternative sites that have a similar and reliable auction structure yet do not choose to hawk over and discriminate upon their users in a way much worse but comparable to the way YouTube does their users with their community guidelines. I think that the war on the herbalist, herb based scientific and herb based spiritual community's needs to stop and that once people begin to change things by voting with their dollars and not listening to ignorant misnomers perpetuated by law enforcement and media agency's we will start to see some real change in drug policy in this country and an end to the attacks on vulnerable community's.

social

The right people in this world. Those that would connect the best are often poles apart. Hundreds if not thousands of miles away from one another. Or not separated by distance but by ideology, by circumstance or by class. We were all thrown into this world, some of us only able to see those in our immediate vicinity, those that we grew up around, those we meet on our day to day routine. Those we meet through school. Some of us are ever separated because we compromise because of distance, because the right people just aren't in reach. Sometimes ideology, sometimes beliefs, sometimes social status and all of the other social constructs are used to play people against each other. Sometimes fears separate. It doesn't matter though. It's all disconnection. All disphoria and social distortion. The people that play upon the social constructs we have set up to unfairly judge others are evil. There's nothing else to be said.

US cannabis policy and taxonomists rights

Seed sales ought to be legal under any cannabis legalization measure. Fun fact: Cannabis seeds are legal in Canada, the UK and The Netherlands for taxonomy purposes. If the people in those countries, some of which have more draconian drug laws than the US can be trusted not to grow or abuse Cannabis seeds so should people in the US. After all, how is a taxonomist supposed to be able to complete a collection of plant seeds for the family cannabaceae if cannabis seeds are illegal.